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'Artists have a special sensitivity to what is possible and what awaits in the future.' Rainer Hofmann prepares for SPRING's future in solitude.

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 May 202029 March 2022
5 min read
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'I have only met one person for more than 3 minutes in five weeks. I live alone, I see people at the groceries, I take walks and bike rides, but apart from that I don't see anyone live.' Rainer Hofmann, artistic director of Spring, is experiencing a very different spring than intended, thanks to Corona. This month, the major Utrecht festival of innovative art was supposed to...

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The Encounter, Complicit / Simon McBurney, foto: Alex Aitchison

Waarom je tussen 15 en 22 mei met koptelefoon op naar Simon McBurney moet luisteren

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 May 202030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, INTERNET, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

We worden tamelijk doodgegooid met online theaterervaringen. Eerlijk gezegd mijd ik die. Ik vond theater altijd al iets om live te ondergaan. Klossende schoenen zijn verschrikkelijk, zichtbare consumptie bij het spreken kan ik momenteel even niet aanzien en het geluid is altijd matig. Ik wil live theater, en anders niet. Laat tv aan de tv-makers, die hebben daarvoor doorgeleerd. Toch…

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CULTURELE SECTOR DOET BEROEP OP STEUNMAATREGELEN PROVINCIE

by one of our members
29 April 202029 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

Culturele instellingen in de provincie Utrecht zeggen in een brief aan Gedeputeerde en Provinciale Staten “te vrezen voor het voortbestaan van de fijnmazige kunst- en cultuursector in de provincie.” Zij luiden de noodklok over de gevolgen van de corona-maatregelen. De brief is opgesteld door ruim honderd instellingen: podia, zowel grotere in Amersfoort en Utrecht als kleinere in overige gemeenten, musea,…

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Zeeland has already fallen. Why processing arts plan grant applications has become pointless, but may still need to go ahead.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 April 202030 March 2022
3 min read
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Op dit moment zitten ze nog allemaal te Zoomen of in een MS Teams meeting, de tientallen adviseurs en commissieleden die zijn aangesteld om de honderden subsidieaanvragen te beoordelen voor het nieuwe kunstenplan 2021-2024. Maar naar alle waarschijnlijkheid gaat het niet meer over de aanvragen, maar over hoe het nieuws te brengen dat de procedure wordt stilgelegd. De provincie Zeeland…

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This Was The News is more enjoyable without an audience than Sunday with Lubach

by Peter Olsthoorn
21 April 2020
4 min read
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We must continue to get through the already theatre-less weekends this spring and summer without Sunday with Lubach and This Was The News. Their season is over. The latter remained witty without an audience, Lubach in my opinion did not. How did that happen? Five weeks ago, when the shows first recorded it without an audience, it was noticeable that Sunday with...

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Dancing in times of Corona: all you need is yourself and a chair and a closet.

by Helen Westerik
15 April 2020
4 min read
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We are now a good month after the start of the intelligent lockdown. Slowly, a new normal is beginning to emerge, where we are no longer exclusively fanatically following all the tweets about corona. The concerns are still there and certainly where the cultural sector is concerned. The entire sector, nationally and internationally, is engaged in the titanic task of keeping the public...

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